fiction

In June, I gave a keynote at 'Writing in the Digital Age' at the Free Word Centre in London. I spoke about how new technologies are not just changing how writers market themselves, sell books or relate to the reader, but the possibilities of fiction itself.

I am floating in a world made entirely of text. Lines of white courier type stretch away to the horizon, spelling out passages from Borges’s Library of Babel: The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries… I look